I''ve seen this topic has been discussed a couple of times. However, I''m wondering if a method exists in rails to test a name against the reserved words listed on the wiki? Just wanted to check before I write this myself (and type in all of those names -- including PostgreSQL). To explain the application: I''ve written a project that manages ldap data. On a fresh install, there is very small interface. Mainly just a System menu with the following options: Folders: This allows to create high level menu items, this is a tree structure so you can nest folders to generate sub menus. Entries: This defines what the data in the system. You add an entry to a folder. It creates tables base of off the user entries with various column type options. A lot of other stuff here, too much to talk about now. This is the bulk of the system. How you create entries defines the lists and edit screens as well. LDAP: A simple config screen for setting up which ldap server you are working with and a management area that lists what changes are to be done (with ability to cancel, etc..). So, there are no model files for the entries. They are created dynamically with the following lib: module Stone module Dynamic class << self def klass(table_name) tname = class_name_from_table(table_name) const_missing(tname) rescue NameError define_klass(table_name) end def objeck(table_name) klass(table_name).new end private def class_name_from_table(table_name) Inflector.camelize(table_name) end def define_klass(table_name) tname = class_name_from_table(table_name) class_def = <<-end_eval class #{tname} < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name(''#{table_name}'') end end_eval eval(class_def, TOPLEVEL_BINDING) const_get(tname) end end end end I need to somehow validate against reserved words. Any suggestions? Anything wrong with the Dynamic module? Sorry for the long post, andy -- Andrew Stone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060728/07fcd765/attachment.html